New York City Students Are Getting Younger

New York City Students Are Getting Younger

New York City's preschool expansion is not happening in quite the same blitz as its massive scale-up of classes for 4-year-olds, when the city added nearly 50,000 full-day pre-k seats to the school system over the course of two years. 

Now, for the first time, the city's public schools are offering programs targeted at even younger toddlers: 3-year-olds.

The first phase of expanding preschool is taking shape in District 7 in the South Bronx and District 23 in Brooklyn, which includes Ocean Hill, Brownsville and parts of East New York...